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police dog

noun

  1. a dog trained to assist the police.


police dog

noun

  1. a dog, often a German shepherd dog, trained to help the police, as in tracking


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Word History and Origins

Origin of police dog1

First recorded in 1905–10

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Example Sentences

The police dog, they said, had found Franklin in the small, crowded basement, squeezed behind a hot-water heater near a staircase.

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He told her he heard footsteps upstairs and what sounded like a police dog.

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No police dogs turned on people, no billy clubs hitting people.

Just like the water hoses and police dogs of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Floyd’s death presented evidence of senseless violence by law enforcement.

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Then Cherry’s police dog attacks the woman for almost 30 seconds, the video shows.

This wandering about I considered necessary in order to delay and perhaps bamboozle any police dog put on my track.

He went into the house, and must have gone to his room, where the police dog had been shut up for hours in disgrace.

The picture is built around Strongheart, a magnificent police dog.

Captain Thénault labours away at the messroom piano, or in lighter mood plays with Fram, his police dog.

A great police dog, straining at the leash, gave Walter a thrill of mingled admiration and timidity.

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